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[50] In them he makes some compliments to Phocas, whichare not so much praises as respectful exhortations to a tyrant in power,and wishes of the public liberty, peace, and happiness. His father, St. Benedict,and think he who has written so much concerning St. Gregory, in two words, expresses the characteristical virtue of thisglorious patriarch of the monastic order, when he says, that, returningfrom Vic

Every word is dictated by the most ardent zeal andcharity, and powerfully insinuates itself into the heart by the c His two brothers, Landulph and Reynold,became sincere penitents; and having some time after left the emperor'sservice, he, in revenge, burnt Aqu Chrysostom[16] shows that the destruction of Jerusalem is to beascribed, not to the power of the Romans, f ) On the precept of self-denialhe takes notice, that by it Christ commands us, first, to be crucifiedto